Bill Gates at CES 2005

I was watching the keynote talk from Bill Gates at CES 2005 last night. There are so many cool innovations coming out. The state of the art in software and hardware is now enabling anything you can imagine.

The market potential of PVRs is huge. You are right, up until now they have largely been either linux-based hack jobs or expensive electronics items. Hopefully we’ll see some mass market pressure on these so they drop enough in price for my parents to get one. Because I don’t think my Mum would be happy tinkering with Linux… 😉

That sounds pretty slick. The ‘hack jobs’ comment was in the good sense of hacking i.e. you have to play around with the software and hardware to get it to work. My test for mass market is ‘could my Mum/Dad set this up?’. I don’t think they know what a linux distribution is, but I could be wrong 😉